Oh no. If Jim is being this blatant with his four-shouldering foreshadowing, I’m pretty sure Rio isn’t going to make it out of here. Either that, or the trio on the train forgot to plan a way to escape if everything goes sideways and get left behind as Rio runs away.

And yes, pointing out the foreshadowing while being serious rather defeats the purpose of foreshadowing. And it also takes away from the potential cleverness of the writer. No opportunity for the Aha! moments to occur means that no one’s going to look for additional things to connect that the writer may have never realized they were doing.